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IT OUT-HERODS HEROD. PRAY YOU, AVOID IT' by ANTHONY HECHT

Poet Analysis

First Line: TONIGHT MY CHILDREN HUNCH
Last Line: WHO COULD NOT, AT ONE TIME, HAVE SAVED THEM FROM THE GAS
Subject(s): WORLD WAR II;

Poem Sources:

THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY. 2ND ED.
  ELLMANN, RICHARD, & O'CLAIR, ROBERT (EDS.)
  (1988)
 
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETS; AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1940.
  STRAND, MARK (ED.)
  (1969)
 
THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN VERSE.
  ELLMANN, RICHARD (ED.)
  (1976)
 
AGAINST FORGETTING; TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY OF WITNESS.
  FORCHE, CAROLYN (ED.)
  (1993)
 
THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETS; AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1940.
  STRAND, MARK (ED.)
  (2000)
 
THE FORMALIST, V15#1, /04.
  (2004)
 
COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS.
  HECHT, ANTHONY
  (1990)
 



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